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Falkon, a sales analytics platform that uses AI to attempt to show where successful product sales are occuring in an organization, today announced that it raised $16 million in a funding round led by OMERS Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

MEDU aims to reduce hospital garment waste and replace single-wear items with its line of sustainable, virus-resistant reusable pieces. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The process of finding job candidates often entails a lot of tedious manual work for recruiters, like sending versions of the same email over and over again. That’s Kula was created. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The first major subsidy contract under the U.K. Government’s £5 billion ($5.9 billion) Project Gigabit scheme has officially been awarded, with Wessex Internet securing £6 million ($7 million) to connect remote properties in South West England to high-speed broadband. Â Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Headquartered in Singapore, proptech startup Propseller is on a mission to make real estate transactions more efficient and data-driven for sellers and buyers alike. Its platform is able to tell users the likelihood of a conversion each step of the way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Weeks after laying off workers, supply chain startup FourKites has raised $30 million as part of an ongoing financing round, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

StarTree, a company building what it describes as an “analytics-as-a-service” platform, today announced that it raised $47 million in a Series B round led by GGV Capital with participation from Sapphire Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and CRV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Augmented reality headsets have been around for years, but none of the market players has really expanded beyond the techy demographic and broken into the mainstream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Supply chain disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine is driving increased costs of goods and services, affecting not only the industrial sector (e.g., semiconductors), but also the agriculture industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Web3 doesn’t have the most inclusive reputation, yet so many crypto founders talk about onboarding the next 100 million users into the space. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Privacy breaches are not only bad for users, but also costly for tech companies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Servify, a startup that manages lifecycle of devices for several popular smartphone vendors including Apple and Samsung in many markets, has raised $65 million as it eyes becoming a public company in two years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Based in Japan, biotech startup Dioseve’s ambitious goal is to grow human oocytes, or eggs, from other tissue. Its aim is to help people struggling with infertility, and it recently raised $3 million led by ANRI, with participation from Coral Capital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Programming involves a lot of monotonous tasks. Based in Gujarat, India, DhiWise wants to makes things less onerous for developers with its programming automation platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Modern DevOps turned back the clock on agile software development. Them’s fighting words, but they’re words Cory O’Daniel, the CEO of Massdriver, stands by. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Stripe has laid off some of the employees that support TaxJar, a tax compliance startup that it acquired last year, TechCrunch has learned from multiple sources and firsthand documentation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sunstone, a higher education startup that collaborates with academic institutions to help upskill their students for employability, has raised $35 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand to more Indian cities. Sunstone founders said Friday WestBridge Capital led the startup’s Series C financing round. Alteria Capital also participated in the funding, […] Learn more about your ad cho...

Aero Technologies, which describes itself as a “next-generation air travel company” which currently operates on a limited number of routes in the U.S. and Europe, today announced that it has raised $65 million, with $50 million as a Series B funding round co-led by Albacore Capital Group and $15 million in convertible notes. Expa and […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/a...

Health information publishing giant WebMD has announced that it’s acquiring Jim.fr, a French-language medical news and information website aimed at healthcare professionals (HCPs). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

All major social networks including Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat have their own take on how collaborations should work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Multi-asset social investment network and Robinhood competitor eToro has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Gatsby. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bangalore-based Exponent Energy might have come up with a way to deliver 15-minute rapid charging for electric vehicles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mobile apps have to be bug-tested across countless devices to ensure they work as intended. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As the jobs market remains tight (mass layoffs and hiring freezes in tech aside), companies are laser-focused on retaining staff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

WhatsApp has long transcended its roots as a simple messaging app for friends, and is now a core communication tool for businesses seeking a direct channel to their customers’ pockets — both literally, and metaphorically. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices